Folklorists John and Alan Lomax told a believable story by identifying the Midnight Special as a train from Houston to San Antonio, shining its light on a cell in the Sugar Land prison ; “Let the Midnight Special shine its light upon me, Let the Midnight Special shine its ever-loving light upon me.” The story goes that when the passenger train went around a curve it would shine a light through the prison bars and if the light shone on you, your woman was on board with the governor's papers to get you out of prison, the light of undeserved grace ("Truth and Justice Watch,"